POWER SHIFT brings together my early work with that of Evelyne Axell, allowing our perspectives on femininity, power, and self-expression to interact and resonate with one another in St. Agnes’s im...
In a 2019 interview, Armin Boehm said that we are “possibly [...] living in a digital Middle Ages.” That this statement is not exactly to be taken as a compliment to the present should be apparent....
Clédia Fourniau has been chosen as the winner of The Reiffers Art Initiatives Prize for 2024. Selected by a committee of leading figures from the worlds of art and culture, the prize awards an emerging artist from a cosmopolitan French scene...
Amir Fattal, JOEL'S HOUSE, 2023.
For my POST-ARTIFICIAL PAINTINGS exhibition, AI takes center stage, transforming visual data into a reflection of our own tastes and desires. Given its role in the...
Visual artist Chiharu Shiota will design the sets for the production “Idomeneo, re di Creta," an opera-ballet with music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, premieri...
KÖNIG GALERIE congratulates Alice Anderson for receiving the 15th SAM Prize for Contemporary Art. As part of the prize, the artist will travel to Brazil to realize her project titled SOLIDARITY WITH NON-HUMANS...
We accompanied Zsófia Keresztes during her preparations for the exhibition IN ETHYLENE ARMS, which is on view in the Nave of St. Agnes. Known for her fondness for creating large-scale sculptures out of pastel-colored…
We are pleased to announce that Monira Al Qadiri was awarded the Prix Nice (He)art x Asia Now. The artist received the prize on the occasion of Asia Now art fair, where we presented Al Qadiri‘s ...
In "Was mit Kunst", Johann König explains the exclusive art world by interviewing artists, curators, and art collectors. A unique approach to influential players in the art scene...
For Bosco Sodi, this process involves a further step that complicates and enriches the usual relationship of matter to form, creator to creation, work to worker, art to artist: Sodi invites the...
We are delighted to congratulate KOO JEONG A on being selected to represent South Korea at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024. ODARAMA CITIES will transform the cylindrical structure of the national pavilion into an olfactory journey through the spells familiar to urban centers in South Korea. The pavilion is co-curated by members of the Kunsthal Aarhus...
In September of this year, the art world descended on Seoul as the Korean capital played host to the inaugural edition of Frieze Seoul. König Seoul welcomed fair visitors and others...
In Refik Anadol’s artistic practice, machines can perform what once seemed strictly reserved to the domain of the living – to dream and imagine. This represents a revolution in the creative process...
For over a decade now, Brooklyn-based artist Justin Matherly has been exploring the art of Roman and Greek antiquity and its reinterpretation in his work. One monumental example is his New Beaches,...
Can you imagine that the top planner of a big city isn’t a harassed bureaucrat
who spends his time in competition juries and endless meetings, frustratedly
munching on the dry biscuits with a sticky blob of...
Over the last forty-four years Peter Dreher created a series of roughly five thousand works, depicting the very same glass again and again. Starting in the 1970s, when realist painting was a provocation in…
When juxtaposing selected works by Hödicke and Ballesteros, we find intriguing intersections, allowing the viewer to make two key discoveries. Firstly, there are the clearly identifiable motifs and…
The Erwin Wurm & Juergen Teller shoot at the Villa “Le Lac” Le Corbusier took place as part of Erwin Wurm’s “One Minute Sculpture” special project featured at Festival Images Vevey / Switzerland in…
Alicja Kwade has had her genetic code analyzed, yielding some 259.025 pages of information. She has compiled individual sections into files that have been rendered into NFTs...
Built in 1953, Haus Ludwig in Aachen, once residence of the art collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig, can best be described as an artwork in itself. Displaying objects from different eras and ...
Distanz Verlag has dedicated a cataloge to his large-scale canvas works of the New York years: Robert Janitz, Made in New York (144 pages, 2020). The following is an excerpt from the artist’s perso...
In February 1944, nuclear physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer sent a handwritten letter to Sarah Lawrence College in New York – nothing unusual about that. At the time, the letter’s author was...
Distribution systems have gone digital while appropriate attention is being paid to the historical as well as contemporary contributions of women. In search of an interface offering opportunities. History teaches……
At first glance, John Seal’s mysterious pair of paintings appears innocuous, peaceful, almost kitsch. In the first work, the painted cups, adorned with ships and flowers, tower in the foreground of a lush…
Standing in an installation by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, Berliner of choice since 1999, is like poking your head under a curtain into a space of collective memories. You suddenly find yourself…
In the year 2021 the Berlin architect, urban planner, Academy president and artist Werner Düttmann (1921-1983) would have celebrated his 100th birthday. During his lifetime he was a key figure in the cultural…
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, on June 21, 2019, a single segment of the wall found its way back into the public sphere of the German capital. Yet this time not as a threat to the ...
German Romanticism is the most German of all German art ideas. It is the expression of, and opposition to, emergent modernism, and probably the last rearguard action against the relentless advance ...
The practices of Alicja Kwade and Jose Dávila are both broad and distinct. Each artist has ventured successfully into an array of mediums: video in Kwade’s case, and painting in Dávila’s; but it is in…
She started with the tights, the underwear, and then the bra. The sensuality of it all drove the audience crazy,” said the film-maker Jean Antoine about his wife Evelyne Axell’s performance at her opening…
A garden is like a gallery, a museum, a church, a city, in fact, it is like the whole world. The more you know, the more you see. In spring 2016 – just one year after König Galerie moved into the…
Isa Genzken began a series of wall pieces in autumn of 2016 in her Berlin studio which she finished in summer of 2017. The resulting works don’t have titles. Isa Genzken sometimes smilingly calls them...
At first glance, her paintings seem like something you’ll have to research. Mona Ardeleanu masterfully paints virtuously folded fabric bundles, bound textile objects, hair, and an origami of traditional costumes...
In a short essay, film director and author Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, The Shape of Water), who was also born in Guadalajara, refers to Dávila’s installation when he describes Los Angeles as …
Human beings have organized and conditioned their life on this planet through the invention of time. By observing, measuring, and formalizing the movement and changes of the elements they saw up in the sky…
I remember a story I once read about a filmmaker who had a daily ritual for coming up with a new brilliant idea for his next movie, he would stand naked on his balcony, high, overlooking the city until he…
A journey with Tatiana Trouvé through the poetry of Fernando Pessoa: The sleep falling over me, The mental sleep falling physically over me, the universal sleep falling individually over me – this sleep …
In the fall of 2016, Swiss-born Daniel Humm, the current chef de cuisine and co-owner of New York’s three-star restaurant Eleven Madison Park, stands, stunned, in an exhibition by artist Daniel Turner. …
Just watching the world spin is enough to make you dizzy. You don’t have to be apocalyptically inclined to understand that there are no clear paths left. At the very least, there is a sense of trepidation that…
Loie Hollowell explores physicality and sensuality in large-scale, color-intense paintings that oscillate between abstraction and figuration. In her text, Anneli Botz describes the artist’s process in…
In October 2017, König London opened its doors on Edgware Road in Marylebone. Twelve months later, Berlin-based artist Michael Sailstorfer came to the city to prepare his solo exhibition „Tear Show“. He met…
In preparation for her exhibition Fixed Sky Situation at König Galerie in January 2019, Helen Marten invited photographer Lewis Ronald to her London-based studio to document her production in process…
It was the first time in history that financial news became art when Bernar Venet appropriated Clem Morgello’s prominent Newsweek business section as an artwork in 1969. Venet’s blow-up prints were part of…
Today, Kaleyta is a columnist, screen-writer, and most recently, he’s been writing novels. Here’s an excerpt from the final chapter of his award-winning debut, Die Geschichte eines einfachen Mannes…
Within California’s famous beauty and grace, there has always been a peculiar melancholy. It could be said that it has always been boldly opposed to the general good mood of this place – its necessary opposite…
For four years, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset worked on their major solo exhibition, transforming the new spaces of the Fondazione Prada in Milan into several immersive installations, which address the…
Julian Rosefeldt’s 85-minute film PENUMBRA is not a work of science fiction. Instead, it points to our current situation, albeit within a fictious framework that paves the way for a paradoxical enigma...
A woman sits by the window. The car has stopped, the engine is running. The window is a spotless, bulletproof pane of glass. A ray of sunlight falls on her weary face. She turns to look outside, toward the chalk cliffs...
Daniel Arsham’s work explores the zeitgeist and feeds off pop culture. His depictions of eroding sneakers, cassette players, Polaroid cameras, and Pokémon are an expression of his artistic concept of…
Artist Johannes Wohnseifer has collaborated with the German luxury fashion house MCM to create a DJ trunk that incorporates elements of pop culture. Wohnseifer has not only designed...
KÖNIG GALERIE is pleased to announce that Ralph Wolter will gift three Norbert Bisky works on paper to the collection of the Berlinische Galerie. The works represent a rare period of Bisky’s....
Over the past six years, Jose Dávila has created a series of cut-out works that emerged from the pictorial language of Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein, among others, with a special emphasis on portraits and paintings depicting the human figure…
Time and again, incredible record values achieved by works of art at international auctions have astonished the world. But how is the value of a work of art actually determined? What makes art art?...
The summer exhibition at KÖNIG GALERIE in 2019 was curated by Kasper König, father of gallerist Johann König. It was the first time that he and his son had worked together in this way...
There are various ways to arrive somewhere. Every person can choose between long, medium and short paths. The artist Tatiana Trouvé proposes yet another possibility: to no longer focus on the length and…
Taking English landscape parks as their model, liberal members of society like gardener Peter Joseph Lenné created the first public gardens and parks in Germany to offer all townspeople aesthetic pleasure and grant them respite from the rapidly advancing Industrial Revolution...
Inspiration strikes in moments of enlightenment and it comes in totally different ways. There are too many to list. I generally feel more inspired by experiences than by specific places. Things like…
Katharina Grosse’s Untitled (2019) slices the exhibition space of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in two. Its surface is densely saturated with Grosse’s signature high-octane colors: tourmaline greens meet…
The series titled »Die Bücher« (The Books) by Annette Kelm began in 2019 on the occasion of the group exhibition »tell me about yesterday tomorrow« at the NS Documentation Center in Munich. The artist dedicates herself to the books that fell victim to the burnings and bans...
It is the beginning of December 2001, 20-year-old Johann König and art student Jeppe Hein meet on the stairs in front of Frankfurter Kunstverein. During a long conversation Hein talks König into founding a gallery...
One is from the world of fine arts, the other is a philosopher – but they share a common theme: the relationship between plants and animals. Greenfort and Coccia approach the same topic from completely different angles...
The Austrian author Kathrin Röggla and Katharina Grosse are connected in various ways with one another—both are part of the non-profit alliance „WE DO THAT!“ and are engaged members of the Akademie der…
In over two decades of painting, Matthias Weischer has built a practice that continues to imagine a unique spatiality within the limits of the two-dimensional medium. The human figure is rarely pre...
What went first, what came after, what will be? In a mythic setting between abandoned ruins and cozy wooden architecture, Andreas Schmitten tells a story in pictures...
One of the key privileges afforded to eighteenth-century aristocratic guests of London’s Chiswick House was the opportunity to survey its prodigious gardens. The further one wandered from the Palladian…
A few weeks ago hardly anyone was thinking about NFTs, then suddenly there were a few new auction records: 69 million USD for a digital painting by Beeple at Christie’s, for example. Suddenly the whole world...
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